Cartografias da cidadania diferenciada em Luiz Ruffato e Guillermo Saccomanno

Abstract

his essay examines the relation between urban space and the constitution and/or the erosion of citizenship in selected stories of Luiz Ruffato’s Inferno provisório and Guillermo Saccomanno’s novella El pibe. These texts draw a literary cartography of the working class spaces and of the citizenship rights (and the lack thereof ) associated with these terrains. The books reveal, at the fictional level, the dynamic process of citizenship, its unequal implementation and how the material and symbolic cartography reflects, reinforces and, at times, questions these configurations.